Bug#314808: Incorrect directory for web applications.
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 18:55:33 +0200, Miguel Gea Milvaques <debian@miguelgea.com> said:
> Hi, On policy 11.5.4 says: "Web Applications should try to avoid
> storing files in the Web Document Root. Instead they should use the
> /usr/share/doc/package directory for documents and register the Web
> Application via the doc-base package."
> and in policy 12.3 says: "Packages must not require the existence of
> any files in /usr/share/doc/ in order to function."
> This points that all web applications that uses
> /usr/share/doc/package directory are breaking policy 12.3, so I
> think policy 11.5.4 must recommend other different directory.
I agree with this assessment.
> Recent works on webapps-common alioth project recommends to use the
> directory /usr/share/PACKAGE/www.
As others have suggested in this thread, since this is web
application data meant to be served by this host, it makes sense to
have a per-package sub director somewhere under /srv.
/src/webapps/PACKAGE, perhaps? Or is the draft Web
applications policy the correct place to specify the actual path,
and just let 11.5.4 say a subdirectory under /srv, and defer to the
web applications policy for details?
manoj
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